Monday 25th: Good soaring conditions were forecast and happily eventuated leading to a busy day. The first launches into a promising sky were by two private owners declaring long tasks to the south. Rob Bailey got as far as Scunthorpe in his ASG29T before retreating back north due to ominous spreadout S of the Humber. […] Read More...
" I don't think it will be a wave day" said the instructor i/c of the day at briefing. Read on - - - Apart from a single air experience flight early on with Jonathon May P1 plus Ian Bullous and John Ellis in their self launching DG's all launching was by the winch into […] Read More...
A busy flying day in a "between fronts" weather situation. The fresh but lively west wind meant that all but two of the flights were winch launches. Average flight times were between 30 mins and one hour. Pilots to beat that duration included M Collins with just over 2 hours in the club's Astir and […] Read More...
Most of you will know that George is out of action for a while having a bionic hip fitted. Latest news is that the op went well and he will be back more sprightly than ever. Best wishes to him from us all. So you are stuck with the 2nd reserve for the next week […] Read More...
Friday 16th. A light to moderate WNW wind greeted the day with wave evident and this was soon exploited by those taking off during the morning. A slowly approaching weak front resulted in the skies becoming increasingly cloudy and the wind, while slowly increasing to moderate, backing to become WSW. 16 ATs were flown, with flying […] Read More...
Monday 12th. A predominately moderate to fresh, W'ly wind gusting into the high 20 kts ensured it was a winching day, with good hill lift and evident wave, although the day's cloudiness meant getting into the wave was somewhat problematical. 14 winch launches were flown, all in one or other of the club's four 2 […] Read More...
Monday 5th. A moderate and at times fresh SSE'ly airstream slowly veered into the SSW over the course of the day, as a slow moving depression tracked northwards over the east of the UK, the accompanying rain lasting all of the flying day and amounting to 9mm in total. The combination of rain and low […] Read More...
Thursday 1st. A moderate SW'ly blew for most of the day and while the generally cloudy skies restricted soaring opportunities, nevertheless, 4 of the day's 19 ATs led to flights in excess of an hour, with 9 further flights exceeding 30 minutes. The conditions did allow 5 First Flight pupils to be introduced to soaring, […] Read More...
Friday 26th. A moderate, and at times fresh, SSE'ly ushered in the warmest day of the year so far, with isolated and transient Cu appearing around lunch time. However, soaring proved to be difficult with only one flight, that by John Ellis in his DG800, and that off the last launch of the day, […] Read More...
Wednesday 24th. The High pressure remained in charge of the weather so it was another day of blue skies, light winds from the NWstern quadrant and shallow Cumulus in the morning, they disappearing during the afternoon. Take offs were from runway 24 with the majority of landings on 20. Private owners contributed 7 launches and First […] Read More...
